The cousin, Ginee Haer, wrote: "A bully in class thought it would be funny to accuse [Armaan] of having a bomb, and so the principal, without any questioning, interrogation, or notification to his parents, called the police."

However, Arlington Police Lt. Christopher Cook said that Armaan "never told us anything about being bullied."

The Associated press reported that Armaan "was arrested last week on a charge of making a terroristic threat at Nichols Junior High School. [Cook] said the boy told another student last Thursday that he had a bomb in his backpack. Cook said the next day, the boy made the claim again to the same student and elaborated that he would take his backpack into a bathroom and have the bomb detonate in one minute."

But Armaan said during an interview with the Dallas Morning News, said that he made no such threat and that a classmate jokingly told him a cell phone charger in his backpack "looked like a bomb," before informing school officials the following day.

According to Armaan's account, he did not believe the classmate was being serious and that the classmate said "I'm going to go tell on you and say all this stuff about you."

Armaan was taken into custody that day, a Friday, and released Monday, according the family.

The family was particularly worried about the boy when he did not arrive home from school, according to the cousin, Haer.

She wrote that Armaan's parents only found out that he was being held after calling 911.

Arlington school district spokeswoman Leslie Johnston told reporters that the district did notify the family, though she does not specify when.

The incident comes only three months after Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a homemade electric clock to school in nearby Irving, Texas, which was mistaken by a teacher as a potential bomb.

The case briefly made Mohamed a near-celebrity when it was determined he was only an eager science student — he was even invited to the White House.

Haer, in her Facebook post, points to her family's ethnic and religious background as a major factor in her cousin's detention. Armaan and his family are Sikh, a centuries-old religion founded in India.

"It hurts my heart and boils my blood that there are people stupid enough out there not only accusing us, but our innocent children of being terrorists," she wrote.

Cook told the Associated Press, "the ethnicity or race does not figure into our investigation in any way. There is nothing in the report that would indicate that the suspect was set up. Keep in mind he admitted to officers that he made the threats and that he was just kidding."